Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
DOMESTIC.

By a collision between two freight trains
o. the Cincinnati Southern road, near Ne
mo, Tennessee, two men were killed and
two others were seriously injured
Yale defeated Harvard in a football game
at New York, Thursday by a score OF II 70
g, and thus won the college championship
Refugees will not be permitted to return to
Tempo, Florida, until the few cases Of yell
low fever that are still being treated there
have terminated
The present administration has been sub
Iected to a great deal Of abuse for what its
opponents term its unfriendly attitude to
ward old soldiers, but it appears that the
pension list goes on increasing at a wonder
ful rate all the same. On November, ], 1856
there were 1858, sol pensioners on the rolls
and this number had grown to 49, by
November ]. 1887. The net increase for the
first four months Of the present fiscal year
was 6,ST8 in excess of the net increase for
the corresponding period Of the last neal
year.
The loss by the burning of the packing
house of the Des Moine5 Packing company
is estimated at $3.50 900.
Mr.. Baifour, chief secretary for Ireland,
saws that Editor o. rien can mol be subjected
to the usual prison discipline because ne has
succeeded in sheltering himself under med
his heart action weak.
Snow storms were reported from Alichi-
gan Friday, and from various points IN the
west
A lot of French-Canadian students of
Laval university caused a dlsgraceful riot
in Quebec Thursday night by getting up a
counter demonstration against the Salvation
army. The chief of police appeared upon
the scene at an oppOrtune moment, and
separated the contending parties.
The safe Of the comfy treasurer's Office at
Centreville. Missouri, was blown open Erl-
day night and robbed of about S2U,OOJ IN
cash.
Peter Barrett, who is charged with the
murder of a man named IOuetsOn, at Min
neapolis, was taken to that city from Oma-
ha Saturday, and safely lodged IN jail. The
prisoner is very carefully guarded because
he has been threatened with lynching, and
the authorities fear an attempt may be made
to carry the threats into execution.
Two men were killed in a wreck on the
Lake Erie & Western road near Lima Ohio,
Saturday.
Some interesting divorce statistics have
Just been published, covering thirty-fOur
counties in Iowa, and extending over pc
Rod of twenty years. The number OF d.
vorces granted was 556o4s or which more
than one-haif were on account OF W1lirul de-
sertiOn. Women were the petitioners IN
about two thirds of the cases. and the aver
ace duration of the married life of the per
sons divorced was from three to ive years
The official figures of the recent election
in Dakota show that the majority for dlv1-
sion will not exceed 5000, and that only
eight counties in the territory voted against
prohibition.
A meeting was held in New York at which
speeches were made by members of the dep
utatiOn from the British parliament who
have come hither to urge international arbl-
tration for the settling of disputes. Resolu-
tiOns were adopted urging the government
to formulate treaty with Great Britain on
the subject.
William Warner was found dead IN a New
York hotel. Papers found on ms person
showed that he had connection with j. I.
PierOnnet, Wheaton, Illinois.
All the testimony has been taken in the
Standard Oil cases before the interstate
commerce commission and further proceed
ings have been postponed TIL January To-
when arguments VIII be heard. Inc com
plainant has proved that the railroads give
discriminating rates IN favor of oil IN tank
cars. and that the Standard company Is the
only one that is able to profit by the discrim-
nation.
A jury assessed damages amounting 70
over 100000 against GuZnan Blancol
president of Venezuela in suit brought by
| George Wilson, of New York, IN consequ-
ence of the revocation of a lease OF seven
million acres Of land
Two miners were caught in a fall of rock
and coal in a mine near Mllkesbarres Penn
sylvania, Monday, and crushed to death.
A large portion Of Cary Station, AlcHenTy
county, Illinois, was destroyed by hre Mon
day morning
Henry Overstoltz, president of the col
lapsed Fifth National bank Of st. Louis anc
/ ex-mayOr of the city, died Tuesday morning
Ia hnH haa SIN for time. and old moi
know that the bank had suspended, The
| death is announced at Little Rock Arkansas
/ of William A. Miller, who served two term.
as governor of the state.
! The superintendent OF the insane asylum
| at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, claims to be par
owner in a valuable gold mine situated
/ about eighteen miles from the city OF Wash
! ingtOn.
| B. f. Jones, chairman of the national re
/ publican committee, says that Mr.. Blaine
/ has informed him that he has not the slight
| est desire TO be nominated for the presidency
maxi year.
| The sentences of the eighteen young Rus
| sian Officers who were convicted of engaging
/ in a revolutionary conspiracy have beer
| commuted from exile to degradation to thu
/ ranks.
| There is a large number of anarchists II
/ Newark, New Jersey, considering the size o.
| the city, and they have become so outspOkeI
in their denunciatiOn of the authorities tina
the police fear they may cause trouble.
! In his annual report, the postmaster gen
/ eral suggests a number of measures for tn
/ improvement of the service, the more i'm
/ porta1lt being the extension and perfection
/ of the system of free delivery, the refOrma
/ ton of the system of employing and paying
l for railroad transportation, and the estab
lishment of additional fast mail service
| He is of the opinion that the defcienc!
I nameaH the the rates II r1naf
/ age viii nearly if not entirely disappea
| during the current year, but he is Opposes
to any futher reductions for some time {,
| come. General interest will be excited b,
presidential classes ], 500 are held by ap
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